{"id":2,"date":"2010-06-27T20:09:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T20:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-11T22:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:56:41","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/22623232897_147234f425_z.jpg\" alt=\"22623232897_147234f425_z\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-122096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/22623232897_147234f425_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/22623232897_147234f425_z-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/22623232897_147234f425_z-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/22623232897_147234f425_z-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am a regular film critic for Rogerebert.com. My work has also appeared in <em>The New York Times, The L.A. Times, Sight &#038; Sound<\/em>, and other outlets. I have written numerous DVD booklet essays for Criterion Collection releases, as well as two video-essays included as special features (one on Gena Rowlands and one on the acting in Raging Bull). I wrote the narration scripts for two Academy Awards&#8217; Lifetime Achievement tribute reels: one for Gena Rowlands (read by Angelina Jolie), and the other for Anne V. Coates (read by Diane Lane). I had a biweekly column on <i>Film Comment<\/i> called, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmcomment.com\/blog\/category\/columns\/present-tense\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Present Tense<\/a>&#8221; (no longer in operation, since <i>Film Comment<\/i> shuttered its doors in the pandemic. But I am proud of that year-long archive of work). I&#8217;m a member of the New York Film Critics&#8217; Circle and the National Society of Film Critics.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?page_id=88528\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">List of my writing work here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An essay about my father ran in the Irish Letters issue of <i>The Sewanee Review<\/i>, the oldest literary journal in the country. <\/p>\n<p>I received a BFA in Theatre from the University of Rhode Island and a Master&#8217;s in Acting from the Actors Studio MFA Program. <\/p>\n<p>My script, <i>July and Half of August<\/i> has had public readings at Theatre Wit in Chicago and the Vineyard Theatre in New York. In 2015, one of the scenes was made into a short film, which had its premiere at the 2015 Albuquerque Film and Music Experience, and played at Ebertfest 2017.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been blogging here since 2002. Along the top nav are category listings showing the main subjects I write about here. There are more categories which can be found in a dropdown on the right nav. Also in the dropdown in the right nav is Archives, broken out by month. There&#8217;s a little Search box at the top of the right nav. I keep meaning to get this joint re-designed &#8211; it&#8217;s all very 2006 in design &#8211; but whatever, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll manage. Oh, and at the bottom of every post, I include a bunch of tags. Tags are where things get really granular.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Instagram<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/therealsheilakathleen\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@therealsheilakathleen<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Blue Sky<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/sheilakathleen.bsky.social\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sheilakathleen@bskysocial<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Substack<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/sheilaomalley.substack.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Email<\/strong>: sheilaomalley@mac.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a regular film critic for Rogerebert.com. My work has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, Sight &#038; Sound, and other outlets. I have written numerous DVD booklet essays for Criterion Collection releases, as well &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?page_id=2\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203838,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/203838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}